Browsing HKS Faculty Scholarship by Author "Risse, Mathias"
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The Fourth Generation of Human Rights: Epistemic Rights in Digital Lifeworlds
Risse, Mathias (Harvard Kennedy School, 2021-11)In contrast to China’s enormous efforts to upgrade its system of governance to a new technological level built around a stupefying amount of data collection and electronic scoring, countries committed to democracy and human ... -
Global Justice
Risse, Mathias (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2011)Increasing political and economic interconnectedness draws much philosophical attention to the question of the conditions under which such stringent claims arise. Do claims of justice arise only among those who share ... -
On the Role of Solar Geoengineering in Combatting Climate Change: Harvard University vs. Indigenous Voices
Risse, Mathias (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-08)In 2021 the Saami Council asked Harvard to suspend research related to stratospheric aerosol injections, a form of geoengineering. Their intervention raises far-reaching questions regarding the appropriateness of geoengineering ... -
A Précis of On Global Justice, With Emphasis on Implications for International Institutions
Risse, Mathias (Boston College Law School, 2012)The two traditional ways of thinking about justice at the global level either limit the applicability of justice to states or else extend it to all human beings. The view I defend rejects both these approaches and instead ... -
A Radical Reckoning with Cultural Devastation and Its Aftermath: Reflections on Wub-e-ke-niew’s We Have the Right to Exist
Risse, Mathias (Harvard Kennedy School, 2023-08)Wub-e-ke-niew’s enormously unsettling book We Have the Right to Exist presents a version of indigenous philosophical thought as an alternative way of being human in the world that creates profound insights in times of ... -
Securing Human Rights Intellectually: Philosophical Inquiries about the Universal Declaration
Risse, Mathias (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2009)This article is intended for an edited volume in the series "The New Harvard Bookshelf: Towards a Liberal Education for the 21st Century." The purpose of that collection is to bring together articles that capture the basic ...